leafbunk, thank you for your suggestions. Yes, I do see that I could have done a little better with use of transparencies - more exactly a linear shading fills over the alpha channel. But as I started off and continued to work on this piece, I sort of set a goal to myself that I would attempt to complete this piece of work with only flat colored paths and patches. If you take a closer look at the piece, you will notice that there are no gradients to this point - and that is a kind of style I am experimenting in this piece.

For now, I am not actually aiming at a photo-realistic image, but a vector caricature that has been given immense effort in terms of details.

And another reason I did not go for gradients - my PC cannot take it. (><) It almost comes to a standstill when I apply even one layer of gradient to any polygon on this piece.

And thanks for that link to that DeviantArtist's gallery. I am checking it out. I think though that the person has been giving tutorials with respect to Adobe Illustrator. (I use Inkscape). I hope I can get some general info on technique from those tutorials there.

This post has been edited by Vyoma: Jan 6 2007, 06:38 AM

The images on that link look pretty darn nice.

But to be honest, I think that if Vyoma wanted to, he (well asumming Vyoma is a he lol) could more than likely do just as well.

It's looking great so far, and from the changes iv'e seen it looks more or less like a matter only time to improve on it greatly (meaning whether he knows how to do this or that, he seems to get it going well).

But I don't know any technical detail on all this, it's just what I see lol.

Ok. This is about it. I do not think I can push my PC any more.



I spent about half an hour on her hair, and there are too many polygons now for my PC to handle. I think I will have to wrap up this project. I will spend about half an hour to one hour more on this, adding some frills and framing it neatly, so that I can give it as a present for her birthday. I will post the finalized one soon.

Software: Inkscape
Total Effort: 9 hours

Looking good!

It's a pity your PC can't handle anymore, I'm sure there's alot you could have done , very nice work.

Total Effort: 10 hrs
Software: Inkscape

Thats about it. Nothing fancy. Just kept it simple.


And I made it in time. Few more days to go for her birthday.

Hey, nice final touches there mate.

That's some very nice work.

So what is your next project .